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      Zering @AdamBeGood
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      @adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.

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        AdamBeGood @Zering
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        @zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

        @adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.

        Thanks, @zering. I guess I just hadn't noticed. Can I have yabasanshiro installed and still choose other emulators? Or do I have to take a line out of config every time to do that?

        I didn't expect a response from you on this one!

        Edit: Take that line out and put a normal runcommand line in and that seems all good now.

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          testudo @Folly
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          @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

          @adambegood

          Nice,

          Now we have to play, after all the effort involving ;-)
          Let me know how it goes.

          With mame we can (we can pause first with P) :

          • save states with : shift-left + F7
          • load states with : shift-right + F7

          Can you defeat this one, in stage 1 ? :

          Screenshot_20211205_122911.png

          Concur, brilliant detective work! I can only get it to boot using the lr-mess-fmtowns config, the other fmtowns and mame runcommand selections do not work. But, changing the Joystick port 2 to <nothing> removed the in game freezing and it plays great. I'll just manually change it back to <mouse> when done playing. No luck in my first attempt to defeat the stage 1 Boss.

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            DTEAM @testudo
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            @Folly
            On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

            Does somebody already managed that?

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              AdamBeGood @DTEAM
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              @dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

              @Folly
              On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

              Does somebody already managed that?

              I'd be surprised if Folly hasn't cracked that, I think it might have been discussed at some point.

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                Folly @DTEAM
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                @dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                @Folly
                On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

                Does somebody already managed that?

                I will have a look, it should be possible.

                Edit :
                Tested 4d tennis adding the user floppy in the GUI but the floppy file isn't accepted.
                runcommand.log gives this error :
                Fatal error: Device 3.5" high density floppy drive load failed: Unable to identify the image format

                I will look at it later again.

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                  Folly @DTEAM
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                  @dteam

                  It looks like we both use NEOKOBE files for fmtowns.
                  I think that the user floppy files have an image structure that cannot be read by mame somehow.
                  I think we need to convert the floppy files or try to find ones that work with mame.

                  I was able to create an empty .hdm floppy image which is accepted but it seems it's not enough for "4D Tennis".

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                    testudo @Folly
                    last edited by

                    @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                    @dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                    @Folly
                    On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

                    Does somebody already managed that?

                    I will have a look, it should be possible.

                    Edit :
                    Tested 4d tennis adding the user floppy in the GUI but the floppy file isn't accepted.
                    runcommand.log gives this error :
                    Fatal error: Device 3.5" high density floppy drive load failed: Unable to identify the image format

                    I will look at it later again.

                    With FMTowns using lr-Mess, 4D Tennis will boot and be fully playable if you add a blank formatted disk in .hdm format with the GUI at the user disk prompt. The specific user disk file I had for 4D Tennis was .bin format and was not recognized.

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                      Folly @testudo
                      last edited by Folly

                      @testudo

                      Is it a 1.2Mb floppy .hdm image or a 1.44Mb ?

                      I tried the same, as what you did, with mame with a 1.2Mb .hdm but that didn't seem to work.
                      So perhaps I missing something here.

                      I have to try it again.

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                        testudo @Folly
                        last edited by testudo

                        @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                        @testudo

                        Is it a 1.2Mb floppy .hdm image or a 1.44Mb ?

                        I tried the same, as what you did, with mame with a 1.2Mb .hdm but that didn't seem to work.
                        So perhaps I missing something here.

                        I have to try it again.

                        I'm not sure how to check the file size in the FMTowns OS, but the "ROM" file size is 1,261,568 bytes, so I would guess it is a 1.2Mb. It is MS-DOS formatted if that is a clue: I used Repacked Neo Kobe [OS] Blank disk/

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                          Folly @testudo
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                          @testudo @DTEAM

                          It's an 1.2Mb floppy image.

                          I used the same now for mame.
                          But basically I had the same problem as the last time.

                          Inserting the floppy image and select : read and write.
                          After some time it will say : check user disk !

                          I decided to select : read from image and save to another image.
                          Then it asks what kind of image format, I selected : fmtowns unformatted and changed the name so it will create a new floppy.

                          After that it was accepted and I could go playing.
                          But the game seems stuck after selecting some play options.

                          Did you manage to play ?

                          Btw.
                          Using the game specific load option has it's advantage.
                          When selecting the floppy image next time it will show up the correct directory for selecting the image.

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                            testudo @Folly
                            last edited by testudo

                            @folly

                            I only played the Practice session option for a few minutes and that worked fine. I will try the proper game/tournament option and report back.

                            Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the MAME emulator options or MESS game specific emulator selection options to work. I have even tried making them the default in the emulator.config file and still no success.

                            I created a User Disk folder in the Rom directory where I store all the different user disks and lr-mess seems to default to it when I use the GUI to add a floppy image. So adding the user disk image file is a fairly quick exercise.

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                              Folly @testudo
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                              @testudo said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                              @folly

                              I only played the Practice session option for a few minutes and that worked fine. I will try the proper game/tournament option and report back.

                              Curious if it will works, on your side.

                              Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the MAME emulator options or MESS game specific emulator selection options to work. I have even tried making them the default in the emulator.config file and still no success.

                              I don't know what problem you have then.

                              I created a User Disk folder in the Rom directory where I store all the different user disks and lr-mess seems to default to it when I use the GUI to add a floppy image. So adding the user disk image file is a fairly quick exercise.

                              Nice solution.

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                                Folly @testudo
                                last edited by Folly

                                @testudo

                                Progress, indeed I got it, it's working.
                                Only the carreer option doesn't work, I think.

                                2021-12-19-142509_800x600_scrot.png

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                                  testudo @Folly
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                                  @folly

                                  Fantastic! I was going to post that I played 5 sets in <Exhibition> and it worked fine.

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                                    testudo
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                                    @Folly
                                    Does the Acorn Archimedes emulation still work for you? I have updated RP a few times and recently went back to revisit my Archimedes game library, only to find I am unable to launch any games. I usually get the screen below (remember seeing this previously, but forget the fix) when using lr-mess. The RISC OS never boots.
                                    Screenshot from 2022-03-22 17-33-01.png

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                                      Folly @testudo
                                      last edited by Folly

                                      @testudo

                                      Yes, it works.

                                      You should check your /dev/shm/runcommand.log .

                                      I used my latest mamedev-script 241.00 .
                                      Installed "aa310 + booting Risc OS 310 + floppy" from the EXTRAS section .
                                      Placed the these bioses in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame :
                                      aa310.7z
                                      archimedes_keyboard.7z

                                      extracted the mame software archimedes.zip in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/archimedes .

                                      Loaded lemming.zip correctly with :
                                      lr-mess-aa310-bios_310-flop
                                      lr-run_mess-aa310-flop-autoframeskip
                                      mame-aa310-bios_310-flop

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                                        testudo @Folly
                                        last edited by

                                        @Folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                        the mame software archimedes.zip

                                        Looks like my BIOS files are not working for some reason.

                                        [libretro ERROR] 0296,041-01.rom NOT FOUND (tried in aa310)
                                        0296,042-01.rom NOT FOUND (tried in aa310)
                                        0296,043-01.rom NOT FOUND (tried in aa310)
                                        0296,044-01.rom NOT FOUND (tried in aa310)
                                        cmos_riscos3.bin NOT FOUND (tried in aa310)
                                        acorn_0280,022-01_philips_8051ah-2.bin NOT FOUND (tried in archimedes_keyboard aa310)
                                        

                                        But, it appears those roms are in my aa310.zip and archimedes_keyboard.zip (I have .7Z versions in the BIOS folder as well).

                                        Screenshot from 2022-03-23 18-02-54.png

                                        Screenshot from 2022-03-23 18-04-21.png

                                        More investigating to do...

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                                          Folly @testudo
                                          last edited by Folly

                                          @testudo

                                          You know, you can do it with my script in the "restricted browser".
                                          You only have to insert the correct "website name".

                                          You can search, with google/duckduckgo, for the file in mame-0.231-merged
                                          Then you will know what to insert into the form.
                                          Then you will see everything what is available.

                                          When selecting something from this romset, it will automatically be pushed to the BIOS/mame.

                                          There is also an option for BIOS(es) not found.
                                          After you tried a system in mame or lr-mess, just go to my script and select that (picture 2) and if it works correctly then it will show you what you are missing and have to get.

                                          2022-03-24-083815_1600x900_scrot.png 2022-03-24-083819_1600x900_scrot.png

                                          Edit :
                                          Replace the xxx'es
                                          axxxxxx.xxg

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                                            testudo @Folly
                                            last edited by

                                            @Folly
                                            Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and alerting me to the browser feature.

                                            I am apparently not in the correct frame of mind to be thinking clearly, as the web addresses I enter for the merged set are being rejected. Might be because they are split into smaller compressed files due to hosting requirements. I will re-read your instructions after a good night's rest and try again tomorrow.

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